Donald Trump has pledged to escalate the economic pressure on Iran by blocking the Strait of Hormuz. Plus: Victor Orban has been trounced in Hungary’s general election, and Tucker Carlson clashes with the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire.

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Trump is spiraling as he appears to sabotage his own ceasefire deal, raising serious questions about what comes next. Meanwhile, Melania suddenly steps into the spotlight with a bizarre press conference on Epstein, and new economic data paints an increasingly troubling picture. Ben, Brett, and Jordy break it all down and more.

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In this one-off event to mark the Death in Westminster podcast, Professor Kojo Koram and Dr Dalia Gebrial were joined by expert guests to uncover how secret offshore billions are ruining Britain. In front of a live audience at EartH in Hackney, they spoke to Peter Geoghegan, investigative journalist and founder of the influential Democracy for Sale newsletter, and Stephanie Brobbey, a “recovering” private wealth lawyer and founder of the Good Ancestor Movement. What exactly is ‘dark money’? What is the Institute for Economic Affairs ? How are both impacting our politics for the worse? What can a former private wealth lawyer teach us about how to effectively crack down on this industry of financial hoarding? And what can everyday people do to highlight the danger of dark money in politics?

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The 1990s were a decade of mass technological disruption, as the internet was rolled out across the globe, and we logged on for the first time. In China, the arrival of the internet was swiftly followed by what has come to be known as the ‘great firewall’, a complex matrix of censorship, surveillance and state control. From that point on, there were two internets: the World Wide Web, and the Chinese internet.

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Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran continues to isolate the US, as Keir Starmer says he is “fed up” with the President’s impact on UK energy costs. Plus: Trump turns on former MAGA allies, Melania denies ever having known Jeffrey Epstein, a clash between Peter Hitchens and Zoe Strimpel reveals the divide between conservatives over the war on Iran, and the Greens are predicted to have another surprise victory.

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Will the New Cold War turn into World War III? For fifty years, Alfred McCoy has exposed covert operations. In 1972 he uncovered the CIA and French intelligence’s complicity with the heroin trade during the Vietnam War – research that the CIA tried to suppress.

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Between continued assaults by Israel on Lebanon, and mixed messaging from both Tehran and the White House, the US-Iran ceasefire is on increasingly shaky ground.

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Following his threat to destroy “a whole civilisation” if his demands to Iran were not met, Donald Trump has now declared complete victory, with Iran and the US entering a 2-week ceasefire.

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Trump has threatened that “A whole civilisation will die tonight” if his demands to Iran are not met. Plus: Sina Toosi explains what winning would actually look like for Tehran, US and Israeli forces bomb a synagogue, and the BBC make an eyebrow-raising correction to their reporting on the war.

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Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants in an expletive-laden Truth Social Post, and the U.S. account of its rescue of two airmen inside Iran raises more questions than it answers.

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